Worship Leader, North Charleston Campus

Seacoast Church; Charleston (SC); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Seacoast Church's North Charleston Campus is seeking a Campus Worship Leader who can shepherd a worship and production team to create authentic experiences for weekend services and special events.

The role requires planning weekly worship sets, overseeing Ableton, ProPresenter, and AVL operations, and growing volunteers while embodying Seacoast culture. This is a full-time, on-site role reporting to the Campus Pastor.

Qualifications

• Exceptional musical talent and vocal ability.
• Comfortable with public speaking.
• Ability to recruit, lead, and train musicians and volunteers.
• Strong spiritual alignment with Seacoast Church.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a worship team to create dynamic weekend experiences.
• Plan weekly sets in Planning Center 4-5 weeks in advance.
• Oversee AVL systems and production at campus.
• Lead weekend services and special events.
• Collaborate with Campus Pastor and central Worship team.

Skills

Exceptional musical talent

Public speaking

Team leadership

Recruitment & development

Tools

Ableton Live

ProPresenter

Planning Center

Allen & Heath SQ-7

Behringer X32

Job description

Location: North Charleston Campus

Hours per week: Full time, 40 hours
This position reports to: Campus Pastor

The mission: Seacoast Worship exists to create music and experiences that reveals the heart of God and lead others into his presence. In doing so, we support the mission of Seacoast Church to help others Find God, Grow their Faith, Discover their Purpose, and Make a Difference. The Campus Worship Leader provides passionate leadership for our worship team to create an authentic worship experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Bring Inspiration to the Vision of Seacoast Worship to your Campus

  • Lead and develop a worship and production team of Dream Team (volunteers) and occasionally employees inspired to create a dynamic worship experience, advance the mission of Seacoast, and provide accessible avenues of spiritual growth

• Primary Worship Leader

  • Create face to face moments with God through worship and strive to make every weekend experience one that people want to repeat

    • Drive the weekend worship experience on the platform with enthusiasm and authentic, expressive worship

    • Motivated in self-improvement; striving to continually grow spiritually and in craft

• Set Planning/Building

  • Insert the weekly sets in Planning Center 4-5 weeks in advance. At least two weeks in advance, provide the key the song will be sung in and make sure all resources are available for your team (ISO Tracks, chord/number charts, band notes, tutorials)

• Lead the weekend experience, First Wednesday services, and special events in worship that reflect Seacoast culture and the worship experience desired at Seacoast

  • Manage set up / tear down for worship area (or campus if applicable)

  • Organize stage for specific weekend or event, making sure stage is clean/tidy

  • Oversee all AVL Systems and Production areas for your campus

  • Schedule and lead mid-week run-throughs, as well as the entire weekend services routine (such as call times, start times, service expectations, service times, etc.)

  • Knowledge of Ableton: Make sure Ableton sessions are properly programmed for services/events. Build Ableton sessions, make edits, and troubleshoot when necessary

  • Knowledge of ProPresenter: Program projection assets for main screen(s) as well as environmental projection, make sure lyrics, songs, backgrounds, and slides are loaded. Able to make edits, create song lyrics, and create campus specific announcement slides

  • Program Lighting: Program lighting cues within the lighting software that flows with Central Assets and focuses on dynamics for the entire service

  • Knowledge of Digital Audio Consoles: Be able to navigate a digital audio console (ex: Allen & Heath SQ-7 / Avantis / Behringer X32) to make patching/routing changes, basic gain staging, EQ and compression techniques, and have a musical ear for mixing a full band and host/video transitions, when needed

  • Work with the central Technology Team to be smart hands onsite to help them troubleshoot basic tech issues

  • Be able and willing to work on a ladder to re-focus lighting fixtures or troubleshoot projectors and replace lamps/filters, etc.

  • Lead production team meeting before each weekend service (meet with the Campus Pastor, production, and worship to discuss service flow and create effective transitions)

  • Lead worship for special Seacoast events including, but not limited to; Christmas and Easter services, conferences, All-Staff meetings, weddings and funerals, and other outside events as margin allows

Team Leader

• Meet consistently with Campus Pastor for mentoring and development

• Attend weekly staff meetings with campus staff

• Attend All-Staff meetings

• Connect monthly with Central Worship Pastor

• Continually invest in developing the worship team through community and spiritual growth

• Ongoing Recruitment and Team Development

• Utilize Microsoft Teams for resources and communication

• Manage and organize Mid-Week Run-Throughs. Personally prepare for all tun-throughs in order to set high standards and to provide constructive feedback for team improvement. Memorize music so teams are free to worship, and platform is free of music stands/clutter. Organize final tun-through focusing on dynamics, transitions, flow, and start/end times

• Attend weekly meetings with all Campus Worship Leaders and Central Worship Pastor

• Attend weekly Weekend Debrief meeting with Campus Worship Leaders and Campus Pastors

• Lead campus with comprehensive knowledge of Planning Center, our primary mode of communication and scheduling of teams

  • Schedule worship and production teams at least one month in advance for services and events

  • For each service/event, create service flow to reflect all elements and transitions

Administrative Duties

• Partner with the Campus Pastor to create a worship team budget and steward wisely the worship resources in alignment with the annual budget

• Monitor musician hours and approve all hours each pay period in Paycom; or report independent contractor hours through Ramp

• Submit Campus Worship Leader Checklist weekly and monthly when applicable

Job Essentials:

• Christ Follower (As a religious organization Seacoast Church makes hiring decisions that are aligned to our faith and beliefs)

• Calling to create authentic worship experiences

• Able to lead worship from an instrument

• At least 2 years of relevant experience leading a worship team

• Exceptional musical/vocal talent

• Comfortable with public speaking

• Able to engage in healthy conflict and initiate hard conversations

• Demonstrates spiritual gift to serve others in team environment

• Ability to recruit, lead, and train musicians, worship leaders, production volunteers, and vocalists

• A critical ear and the ability to both give and receive constructive feedback

• Live and drive Seacoast cultural values to Love God, Love People, Make it Better, And Have a Good Attitude.

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